Finian's Rainbow
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Movie Reviews of Finian's Rainbow
Movie Review: "Finian's Rainbow"
Summary: 4 Stars
I enjoy this movie for the Irish theme and light hearted entertainment it presents.
It's a fun musical for the family, lightly touching on the black and white problem
of America and that era.
Movie Review: love musicals
Summary: 4 Stars
Finian's Rainbow is a fun adventure. Can't go wrong with Fred Astaire. Petula Clark was ok but needed more of an Irish brogue.Movie Review: Not As Good As It Could Have Been...But At Least We Have It!
Summary: 3 Stars
The major flaw in this film is that Coppola couldn't decide the style. (It was, after all, his first film...or nearly so.) Much of it is filmed outdoors, but many scenes were done in a studio, and the visual difference between the two is as jarring as "Old Devil Moon" is with the rest of the score, much the way "What I Did for Love" stands apart, stylistically, from the rest of the score of A CHORUS LINE. Both songs were obviously intended to be "the hit song" from the score.
Tommy Steele's acting is over the top, obviously directed to be such. He is, after all, a leprechaun, and there are no role models to emulate. I doubt if David Wayne in the Broadway original was quite so skittish. Petula Clark is surprisingly good; Don Franks is somewhat less so. Fred Astaire is Fred Astaire, looking shockingly old...but then again, he was! It almost makes you feel uneasy, watching him dance at that age...especially the scene in the tobacco barn, where he's up and down a stack of packing crates. A man that old shouldn't be made to do that sort of thing!
In all, though, it's quite enjoyable, if a little heavier-handed with the racial thing than it needed to be. And it was, after all, Fred's final musical appearance in a film. We have that to be thankful for!
Movie Review: Good Cast, but a bit too long
Summary: 3 Stars
Fred Astaire, Tommy Steele and Petula Clark all did quite well with the script they were given, and I think Astaire's singing was better than it ever was. The movie is rather corny and there is so much singing and dancing that you begin to wonder at times if there's really a movie in there or just a concert. The movie is longer than it needs to be and I found I was getting fidgity--wanting it to move on already. Though I always liked to watch Astaire's dancing, I got pretty bored with the dancing done by "Susan the Silent". It's not that she's not good, it's just that her dancing leads more towards a ballet type of thing which I'm just not much into and the dances were kind of like the movie in that they seemed to go on forever. I have to admit I hit fast forward a few times. It's worth a look, but maybe as a rental unless you get a really good price on buying it.Movie Review: Not much of a pot of gold at the end of this rainbow
Summary: 3 Stars
This is a pleasant enough movie, but Fred Astaire is showing his age. Ptula Clark is OK, but Don Francks is a zero as the romantic lead. The music IS wonderful, and the video quality is good, but the story is pretty hokey. Not on the A list, but it does round out a musical theater collection.